The deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom is speculating that the proliferation of artificial intelligence will have a bigger impact on the nation than the Industrial Revolution. "This is a ...

Could the industrial revolution happen in 21st century Britain? It would likely be illegal now. If today’s regulations existed in the 18th century, we’d be closer to a country of subsistence farmers ...

We examine how AI is changing the future of work — and how, in many ways, that future is already here. The artificially intelligent "agents" promised by tech titans like Sam Altman seem destined to ...

Some periods in our history are so transformative that they create a clear divide between the world before and after. We attribute the 18th and 19th centuries to such a period. Named the Industrial ...

What are the ingredients for an industrial revolution? It’s simple! Take some new energy sources, add a dash of cutting-edge ...

Many lingering work practices are “hangovers" from the Industrial Revolution and while they were effective in the beginning, they’re turning into a headache with the current direction of work culture.

Artificial intelligence may rival steam, electricity, and computing—but history suggests its full economic impact will take time ...

AI disruption is coming faster than most expect. It could reshape jobs, wealth, and markets like nothing since the Industrial Revolution. The American Dream is under pressure as inflation, inequality, ...

The speed of capital being deployed by the U.S. private sector on the artificial intelligence front is happening at a dizzying pace. Four U.S. companies—Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft—are ...

Long before the onset of the first industrial revolution around 1760, it is recorded that early humans used crude weapons to hunt, employed basic methods to fish in shallow waters, and toiled with ...

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, declared the world on the precipice of a “technical revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate ...